Leonard Guarente, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Douglas C. Wallace, Ph.D., Emory University Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
Biology of Aging Summer Courses

The Ellison Medical Foundation sponsors a three week course on the Molecular Biology of Aging at the Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA. The course is directed by Drs. Leonard Guarente and Douglas C. Wallace. Funds also covered all expenses for attending students (graduate students, post-docs, junior faculty, and senior investigators). Morning lectures in Model Systems (yeast and C. elegans), DNA Mutation and Repair, Telomeres and Cellular Senescence, Mammalian Aging, and Evolutionary Considerations are followed by laboratory exercises. The Ellison Medical Foundation funded summer courses will run through 2001.

For additional information about this course, contact:

http://courses.mbl.edu

Richard L. Sprott, Ph. D.
Executive Director
The Ellison Medical Foundation
4710 Bethesda Avenue
Suite 204
Bethesda, MD 20814
(301) 657-1830 / 2511 (Phone)
(301) 657-1828 (Fax)

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